Crystalline structure of metallic hydrogen

The functional-integral approach to the theory of crystals developed earlier is used to compute the type of the crystalline structure of metallic hydrogen. Comparison of the results for a number of crystal lattices shows that in the limit of large pressures and infinitely heavy ions the body-centered structure is preferable.Translated from Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov Leningradskogo Otdeleniya Matematicheskogo Instituta im. V. A. Steklova AN SSSR, Vol. 145, pp. 22–33, 1985.